a building where travelers can pay for lodging and meals and other services

An establishment providing accommodations, meals, and other services for travelers and tourists

A hotel is an establishment that provides paid lodging on a short-term basis. The provision of basic accommodation, in times past, consisting only of a room with a bed, a cupboard, a small table and a washstand has largely been replaced by rooms with modern facilities, including en-suite

In French contexts an hotel particulier is an urban "private house" of a grand sort. Whereas an ordinary maison was built as part of a row, sharing party walls with the houses on either side and directly fronting on a street, an hotel particulier was often free-standing, and by the eighteenth

It still hasn't sunk in yet as I set here in our hotel in Dayton. This is the cockpit of the former "Air Force One". I'm serious, everyone needs to come to the museum and see what it's all about. There are a TON of more photos I have yet to get to on here.